Most side businesses take you away from your family on the weekend. This one hands you a reason to bring them along, and the thing you are towing is the thing they already love.
There is something for every age. A younger kid greets guests and hands out controllers. A teenager learns to set up the rig, run the games and talk to a customer.
Everybody sees what it looks like when somebody is happy with what you sold them, and everybody sees where the money comes from. That is a hard lesson to teach any other way.
No two days look the same. Saturday is a backyard birthday party. Tuesday is an after-school program, and Thursday is a PTA fundraiser that raised more than the bake sale ever did.
Friday is a corporate family day or a promotion with the local radio station, and Sunday is a tailgate.
In December it is holiday parties and a church youth group back to back. Summer is camps and block parties and a grand opening where the mayor shows up.
You will not spend one of those days sitting at the same desk you sat at yesterday.
And every one of them is a party. That is the part people underestimate before they own one. Nobody books a gaming theater for a bad day.
You show up, the door opens, and for two hours you are the best thing that happened to somebody's kid that year.